"Our daughter is alive," said Walker, a welder and father of three, who has no criminal record.
"She's worth everything we've been through," added Walker's wife, Elizabeth.
The parents had a crystal ball with which to gaze into the future and they knew that their daughter would have died if Mr. Walker had not taken action. Maybe they should sell lottery ticket numbers too. The sympathy expressed for Mr. Walker is sickening. Did he bother to apologize to the family of the man that he murdered? I guess we all know that drug dealers aren't people with problems of their own. I have not yet heard anybody express sympathy for the victims' drug problem. Just read this bullshit from a Star Phoenix editorial.
Under normal circumstances, Canadians would consider a person who takes a gun from a locked enclosure, loads it, drives to another house and shoots someone as having committed the most egregious of crimes. It's reflected in Canadian criminal law that provides a minimum sentence of 25 years for people convicted of first degree murder.
They don't bother to mention that the daughter willingly went to see the boyfriend. She was not forced or kidnapped. Bringing a gun to get his daughter was a huge mistake and I have a hard time believing that he had no intention of using it.
I would also like to point out that this case illustrates everything that is wrong with the war on drugs. Drug dealing is extremely profitable and legalizing drugs would take away the incentive of drug-addled boyfriends to recruit new users. Make drugs available at the pharmacy and drug dealers will disappear. In the same way that ending prohibition put an end to stills, an end to the war on drugs will put an end to grow-ops and drug dealers. It's obvious that to continue to rely on law enforcement to deal with the drug problem is failing miserably.
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